what I mean is sometimes you post two times in a row in the same topic... you could merge them together by editing a reply.

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Somewhat representation of quality is the points / posts ratio.

How was the "1300 points in one week" determined? Is that information available?

BTW, very impressed with the quality of this forum and I am motivated to climb the ranks.

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Are the 1300 points all awarded points or is there another way of getting points?

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A Helpful Answer is worth 6 reward points and a Correct Answer is worth 10 reward points. Each question can only have one Correct Answer and up to two Helpful Answers. The poster who originally asked the question is the person who hands out the "Helpful Answer" and "Correct Answer" reward points.

Each time the original poster rates a reply they receive 1 point automatically deposited into their reward points pool. The original poster can therefore earn up to 3 more reward points for rating replies (1 Correct Answer and 2 Helpful Answers). The original poster is not eligible to receive Helpful Answer points or Correct Answer points for that thread.
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If you want to maximize points, yes. If you want to call attention to your question rather than risk having it lost in an existing thread, yes.

If you don't care about points, want to avoid an explosion of unnecessary threads, and want to keep related discussion together, no.

Regarding scoring, I believe you get a point for each post, plus one for each reply. See Forums help.

Personally, I think playing to maximize points (as opposed to maximizing information) is not a healthy strategy for the forums. Points are a good motivation, and there's nothing wrong with getting them, but focusing on maximizing points (including point begging) is not something I think is worthwhile.

Ookay!!
Now I have to bring my therapist bills up to date.

Points motivate but we shouldn't get carried away as to making it just about points. We should concentrate on giving quality replies based on our experiences with the subject matter being discussed.

Are the large points obtained in this forum, like 20,000 and better all obtained by delivering correct replies and being awarded bonus points?

I understand there is some posting points there, but still.

I thought those large numbers came from posters uploading informative documents (not necessarily links to documents) or procedures and getting points for the amount of people that access it.

As for begging for the points, a lot of posters seem like newbies looking for guidance and are not aware of the point award system. I don't see anything wrong with making them aware of it. It gives them a certain amount of leverage to get a correct reply to thier inquire, although I have seem points awarded for replies that were not helpful. It seems to me that everyone benefits from this points award system. The newbies get their answer, members get exposed to different issues concerning VMware virtualization and ultimately VMware gets less tech support calls when these newbies get into production environments.

To me the point system is like getting a small amount of gratitude for helping which I don't necessarily get at the workplace while still getting exposed to issues I might not get into because my environment is diferrent.

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